Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-22
FROM WARRINGTON.
ial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE.

FROM WASHINGTON.
GSpeeial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., March %, 1887.
A wellaknown democratic politician from
the Valley of Virginia, here to day, says
General Malone will not have such an easy
time as he evidently thinks he will have, in
coming back to the Senate as Mr.. Riddle
berger's successor, as in case the democrats
lose the legislature, the influence of Sena.
tor Riddleberger, Governor Cameron and
other leaders in the republican party, who
are even more opposed to Malone than the
democrats are, because they have personal
reasons for being so, will be strong enough
to prevent the Generals election. He says
he knows that many of the prominent re-
publicans in the State, and among them
some who were once the Generals staunch-
est supporters. though still on apparent
good terms with him, are really his enemies,
and when the proper time comes Will place
their eumity where it will do the most good.
Capt. Beattie, of Fairfax county, Va, was
in the city to-day. He says he ID not, as
reported, candidate for the treasurership
of that county. He says he at one time
thought of being an independent candidate
for that position, but that when the republi
can managers there told him he must sub.
nit his name to their party convention be-
fore they would support him, he told them
he would not do so, and that that ended the
matter. The Captain was one of Col. Mos.
by's most gallant and efficient soldiers and
though a republican in national. is indie
pendent ia local politics. He says he thinks
Mr.. Sherman will be the republican nominee
for the place referred to.
Al ha which Air WAlEQr fha
republican consul general to Paris place
worth about twenty thousand dollars, is
drawing to close, and as it would hardly
do, with so many democrats applying for
it, to reappoint him, the President is casting
about for a democratic successor.
The opinion of DR.. Sewers, one Of the
leading physicians Of this city, to the effect
that the Presidents failure to take exercise
is njuring his heart, is what everybody who
saw him when he first came here and who
sees him now knows. Why the President
doesn't walk about the city, rs other Presi-
dents have doneis as strange as his iufatGa-
ton with the mugwumps.
Representative Lee, of the Alexandria
district, WAS here 10 day at the departments,
trying to get offices for some of the demo
cratic workers in his district. He is mem
Der of the democratic executive committee
of his State, and will go to Richmond to-
morrow to attend q called meeting of that
co mmittee on the oath inst, and at that
meeting will advise the calling Of State
convention Of the party before next falls
election, irrespective of the action of the
legislature. Mr.. Barbour, the chairman of
the committee referred to, will leave for
Richmond tonight or to morrow, General
Lee says the only thing he knows about
his reputed proposed moving to Washing
ton is what he has read in the newspapers,
and that how such report was started he
can not tell, as he has no idea Of coming
here to live.
The President to day appointed the fol-
lowing collectors of internal revenue: Whit.
field Walker, for the district Of Florida;
D. w. Stewart, for the I'd district of Iowa.
A gentleman who accompanied the Sher-
Capitol this morning. He says that going,
the trip was agreeable enough, but that re.
turning it was terrible. The wind, he says,
blew gale, and the ships rocking was fear.
ful. The party, he says, thought they would
the time on their knees, either to their
Maker or to the spittoons; indeed, be said,
we bad a regular p. p. time OF it.
Now that the term Of the republican post
master at Portsmouth, Virginia, is drawing
to close, and as several good and efficient
democrats have been applicants for the
place ever since Mr.. Cleveland was inau.
gurated. it is said at the postofice depart
ment that Senator Daniel has at last been
informed that if he will recommend man
for it, it will be given him.
Among the arrivals here to day is Rev
Dr. Hoge, of Richmond. In reference to an
editorial paragraph in yesterdays GAZETTE.
to the effect that the members of the Viz
ginia legislature should carry his words,
what is morally wrong can not be political
ly right" pasted in their hats, the Doctor
said he had no more to add to those words.
Mr.. Adams, the book-keeper of the Star,
who disappeared suddenly and mysteriously
a week ago, had not been heard oil up to
noon to-day. His friends, while fearful that
be has been fouly dealt with. still hope he
may be found in bed in Baltimore recover
ing from an ndiscretion.
Several Virginians from the 9th congressional
district were applicants for the place on the
House side of the Capitol from which Mr.: Arthur
Payne, of the same district, was promoted, but it
has been given to Californian.